ALEXANDRA HARBOLD
(she/her)
Associate Professor
Theatre
BIO
Alexandra Harbold is a Salt Lake City-based theatre director, actor, dramaturg and teacher. She co-founded Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory and shares artistic leadership with Robert Scott Smith and is Resident Director with Footpath Theatre Company. Recent projects include: The Cherry Orchard (Director with Video Director Nick Dunn, University of Utah), Western Minerals & Their Origins (Co-Creator/Director, Footpath Theatre), From Code to Universe and To See Beyond Our Time (Co-Creator/Co-Director with Daniel Charon, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company), Prayer for the French Republic; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; and The Lehman Trilogy (Dramaturg, Pioneer Theatre Company), The Post Office (Co-Director, Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival) and The Wreck of the Queen Thomasina (Footpath Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
She is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and a participant in the Solidarity Economy Learning Circles for the Theater Community. Upcoming projects include: the developmental production of Rachel Bublitz’s Hear Us Roar (University of Utah Studio Series), acting in Sunny in the Dark (Salt Lake Acting Company) and serving as dramaturg for Come From Away (Pioneer Theatre Company), directing Western Minerals & Their Origins (Co-Creator/Director, Footpath Theatre and Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory with UtahPresents).
Harbold earned her undergraduate degree in Theatre at Middlebury College and her Masters in Performance Studies at the University of London Goldsmiths College. She is an Associate Professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Theatre where she currently serves as the Theatre Studies BA program Area Head. alexandraharbold.com
www.alexandraharbold.com
www.flyingbobcat.org
INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- Associate ProfessorTheatre1 Jul 2025 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Adjunct InstructorUniversity of Utah, Theatre16 Aug 2014 - 15 Aug 2017
- Adjunct Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Utah, Theatre16 Aug 2017 - 30 Jun 2018
DEGREES
- MFA, Performance StudiesGoldsmiths College University of London, Theatre Arts1995
- BA (High Honors, magna cum laude), TheatreMiddlebury College1994